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Quantum technologies are rapidly advancing as image classification tasks grow more complex due to large image volumes and extensive parameter updates required by traditional machine learning models. Quantum Machine Learning (QML) offers a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Md Farhan Shahriyar , Gazi Tanbhir

Breast cancer is one of the most serious disease affecting women's health. Due to low cost, portable, no radiation, and high efficiency, breast ultrasound (BUS) imaging is the most popular approach for diagnosing early breast cancer.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Kuan Huang , Yingtao Zhang , H. D. Cheng , Ping Xing , Boyu Zhang

Breast cancers is the second leading cause of cancer mortality in women; early diagnosis increase the probability of a successful therapy; any marginal improvement in this direction helps sparing lives. In this context functional imaging…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-02 Adriana Marcucci , Franco Garibaldi , Giulia Limiti , Teresa Insero , Paolo Musico , Evaristo Cisbani

In recent years, there is a growing interest in using quantum computers for solving combinatorial optimization problems. In this work, we developed a generic, machine learning-based framework for mapping continuous-space inverse design…

The task of medical image segmentation presents unique challenges, necessitating both localized and holistic semantic understanding to accurately delineate areas of interest, such as critical tissues or aberrant features. This complexity is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Pranav Singh , Luoyao Chen , Mei Chen , Jinqian Pan , Raviteja Chukkapalli , Shravan Chaudhari , Jacopo Cirrone

Breast cancer is one of the common cancers that endanger the health of women globally. Accurate target lesion segmentation is essential for early clinical intervention and postoperative follow-up. Recently, many convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Gongping Chen , Lu Zhou , Jianxun Zhang , Xiaotao Yin , Liang Cui , Yu Dai

Quantum Machine Learning investigates the possibility of quantum computers enhancing Machine Learning algorithms. Anomaly segmentation is a fundamental task in various domains to identify irregularities at sample level and can be addressed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Maria Francisca Madeira , Alessandro Poggiali , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

In image processing, image segmentation is the process of partitioning a digital image into multiple image segment. Among state-of-the-art methods, Markov Random Fields (MRF) can be used to model dependencies between pixels, and achieve a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Timothe Presles , Cyrille Enderli , Gilles Burel , El Houssain Baghious

The design and performance of computer vision algorithms are greatly influenced by the hardware on which they are implemented. CPUs, multi-core CPUs, FPGAs and GPUs have inspired new algorithms and enabled existing ideas to be realized.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Lisa Tse , Peter Mountney , Paul Klein , Simone Severini

This paper presents a novel method for unsupervised segmentation of pathology images. Staging of lung cancer is a major factor of prognosis. Measuring the maximum dimensions of the invasive component in a pathology images is an essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Takayasu Moriya , Holger R. Roth , Shota Nakamura , Hirohisa Oda , Kai Nagara , Masahiro Oda , Kensaku Mori

Accurate tumor segmentation and classification in breast ultrasound (BUS) imaging remain challenging due to low contrast, speckle noise, and diverse lesion morphology. This study presents a multi-task deep learning framework that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Samuel E. Johnny , Bernes L. Atabonfack , Israel Alagbe , Assane Gueye

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to automatically partition images into semantically meaningful regions by identifying global semantic categories within an image corpus without any form of annotation. Building upon recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Oliver Hahn , Nikita Araslanov , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women. It is the second leading cause of death among women round the world, becoming the most fatal form of cancer. Mammographic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Filipe Rolim Cordeiro , Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos , Abel Guilhermino da Silva Filho

Image segmentation, the process of partitioning an image into meaningful regions, plays a pivotal role in computer vision and medical imaging applications. Unsupervised segmentation, particularly in the absence of labeled data, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Kovvuri Sai Gopal Reddy , Bodduluri Saran , A. Mudit Adityaja , Saurabh J. Shigwan , Nitin Kumar

Purpose: Lesion segmentation in medical imaging is key to evaluating treatment response. We have recently shown that reinforcement learning can be applied to radiological images for lesion localization. Furthermore, we demonstrated that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Joseph Stember , Hrithwik Shalu

Breast cancer is already one of the most common form of cancer worldwide. Mammography image analysis is still the most effective diagnostic method to promote the early detection of breast cancer. Accurately segmenting tumors in digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Filipe Rolim Cordeiro , Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos , Abel Guilhermino da Silva Filho

Machine-based brain tumor segmentation can help doctors make better diagnoses. However, the complex structure of brain tumors and expensive pixel-level annotations present challenges for automatic tumor segmentation. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Ruitao Xie , Limai Jiang , Xiaoxi He , Yi Pan , Yunpeng Cai

Incorporating human domain knowledge for breast tumor diagnosis is challenging, since shape, boundary, curvature, intensity, or other common medical priors vary significantly across patients and cannot be employed. This work proposes a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian , Phoebe Freer

Image segmentation is the foundation of several computer vision tasks, where pixel-wise knowledge is a prerequisite for achieving the desired target. Deep learning has shown promising performance in supervised image segmentation. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Boujemaa Guermazi , Riadh Ksantini , Naimul Khan

The need for a large amount of labeled data in the supervised setting has led recent studies to utilize self-supervised learning to pre-train deep neural networks using unlabeled data. Many self-supervised training strategies have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Mojtaba Bahrami , Mahsa Ghorbani , Nassir Navab